The
TrackMania Website announces the release of a patch for TrackMania United
(thanks Frans) to update this high-octane stunt racing game to TrackMania
United Forever,
making it compatible with TrackMania Nations Forever, a free installment
in the series that's expected for release tomorrow (story).
This post
offers a feature list for TrackMania United Forever, which they describe as "the
ultimate version of TrackMania." The patch will not, however, update the Steam
edition of TrackMania United.
This forum post
offers links to additional download mirrors.

United contains all 7 environments from the previous three TrackMania games: TMO (Rally, Desert, Snow), TMS (Bay, Coast, Island) and TMN (Stadium), plus lots of other features that didn't exist in TMS yet. See the features list linked in the story. Whether that warrants a purchase is your decision of course.

- open this file with texeditor: Programms/steam/steamapps/common/TrackmaniaUnited/Nadeo.ini- change the versionnuber to 0.2.0.9- install now the Update- at first start TMUF is asking for the gamekey... you will find the key in the Nadeo.ini file

Don't worry -- Trackmania and its sequels are among the best-supported games I've ever seen -- to a frankly astonishing degree, in fact. The statistical probability of the Steam version of TMU not receiving this update is about zero, in my estimation.

I don't get it. We bought it on Steam but we don't get the content update that retail people get? Or is this just coming later? If Steam customers are getting shafted, that bugs me. Or is there any additional content here?